“I ain’t the devil, just the devil you know,” howls Jared Deck on the rollicking “Great American Breakdown,” the lead single from his newly announced sophomore album,Bully Pulpit. The Oklahoma-based troubadour evokes the hard-driving blues blend of late-Sixties Rolling Stones and soulful Southern gospel while maintaining his blue-collar earnestness on …
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When it first appeared on Radiohead‘s 2011 album The King of Limbs, “Bloom” was an expansive wash of interlocking guitar parts, polysyllabic percussion and more than one flugelhorn. In concert, it’s remained one of the band’s most complex live songs, with up to three drummers working at a time on …
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Trump’s nominee for attorney general said Tuesday that his Department of Justice would not “go after” marijuana businesses in states that have chosen to legalize and regulate the cannabis trade. Under sharp questioning from Sen Cory Booker (D-N.J.), William Barr told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he personally believes marijuana …
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Tom Cruise will return to the Mission: Impossible franchise for a seventh and eighth time as the actor revealed Monday that a pair of sequels will arrive in the summers of 2021 and 2022. Variety reports that Christopher McQuarrie, who helmed the franchise’s last two films – 2015’s Rogue Nation …
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Keith Urban is gearing up for a busy summer festival season. The reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year has five fests already on his schedule and just added another: Urban will headline Michigan’s Faster Horses Festival with Toby Keith and Zac Brown Band. Set for July 19th through 21st in …
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Six families of victims of the Sandy Hook shooting won a legal battle against Alex Jones and InfoWars Friday after a judge ruled that the far-right conspiracy site must hand over internal marketing and financial documents as part of an ongoing lawsuit against InfoWars and its host. The judge overseeing …
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The same week Chicago rapper CupkKake was hospitalized following a suicidal tweet, she released a new song, “Squidward Nose.” It’s her first track since releasing the album Eden last fall. On “Squidward Nose,” CupcakKe raps about a man whose “dick’s smaller than [her] toes.” Instead, she chooses the Spongebob Squarepants character Squidward’s nose to ride instead. …
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Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch and experimental lute player Jozef Van Wissem will release their fourth collaborative LP, An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil, on February 8th via Sacred Bones Records. The duo teased the record with the shadowy track “Concerning the White Horse,” which unfurls metallic drones and throbbing toms …
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Reclusive “Ode to Billie Joe” and “Fancy” songwriter Bobbie Gentry continues to inspire a new generation of artists including indie rockers Mercury Rev, who have debuted their uniquely psychedelic jazz rendition of the Mississippi legend’s swampy “Okolona River Bottom Band,” with vocal assistance from Norah Jones. “Okolona” is the opening …
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At the end of 2017, adult film actress August Ames had just been nominated for the third year in a row for Female Performer of the Year at the Adult Video News Awards. She had achieved a level of fame and longevity that is increasingly rare for porn performers in …
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